Blowjob analogy.....
So to all those intent on making a point of their disappointment with the quality of the video. This is the best analogy I can come up with as to why I think it is petty and unappreciative.
You are in a relationship for 10 years with a gf/wife. She gives great blowjobs. Some better than others, but all good. Then after 10 years she wants to surprise you and mix things up and add some excitement so she tells you while blowing you she wants you to download in her mouth and she will swallow. So your excitement builds then the boom....but as she is choking it down she makes a terrible face. And rather than appreciate the fact that she took it to another level you focus on the bad expression rather than the act and the overall main event. You lose some of your own enjoyment over something that is kinda irrelevant. And in the process you bitch to her that she had diminished your pleasure by not fulfilling the "above and beyond" the way you would have liked. Good luck getting that from her again you unappreciative SOB....
Fair analogy?
And the award for best analogy goes to...
...this!
Anyway, to address the actual point AngelBack is trying to make, I wouldn't say that's a fair analogy because:
1) Blowjobs generally aren't remembered months after they're given
2) Blowjobs don't affect anyone other than the person giving & the person receiving, so one person's opinion makes a lot more difference
3) The wife most likely didn't make that face intentionally, DT's promotional team knew what they were creating the whole time they were creating it
4) The above point also plays in because DT didn't
have to do what they did. As others have pointed out in this thread, they could've gone with the simpler hand-drawn approach rather than making it all "realistic-looking" if they didn't have the budget to make the characters look like they were meant to. If you do anything, that thing is open to positive & negative opinions, & if the general consensus turns out to be negative, the ol' Never Enough argument of "Can't you see I'm trying? Stop pointing out flaws in my work." doesn't really work out too well.
5) Very few people are actually saying TA is 100% going to suck & giving up all positivity they have over it because they didn't like the trailer. It's like acusing of an ad hominem: if you acuse someone of an ad hominem, you're acusing them of dismissing your point via an insult, not just the insult itself. Same case here, saying the trailer is bad isn't synonymous with saying TA will suck because the trailer is bad. See the difference? (& yes I do know that a slight minority are saying the latter, but given the scarcity of these comments, & the fact that they haven't been on DTF, I doubt those are the people you were actually referring to).
6) The reason people aren't focusing on the "overall main event" is because TA isn't out yet, so people are just going with what they have so far & if what they have so far is bad in their eyes, small & irrelevant as it may be, it's still bad to those people
Personally, the trailer doesn't bother me too much, but if people have an issue with it, I'm not going to belittle their opinion just because it's their opinion of a small part of a bigger picture... especially when this counter-reaction wouldn't have occurred if the general consensus for the trailer was positivity.
Rant over.
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